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Review of I Am Love (2010)

By Aaron Hillis (362) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 May 2010

Bold, thrilling, and undeniably sensuous melodrama uncannily invokes the pleasures of smell, taste, and touch…

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Review of Valhalla Rising (2009)

By Aaron Hillis (362) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 May 2010

Mesmerizing ... A trippy nightmare of savage poetry burning slow across bleak and otherworldly landscapes…

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Review of Breathless (1983)

By Ella Taylor (978) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 May 2010

Breathless makes alienation look like it was a lot more fun in 1960 than in the ponderous gravitas or ante-upping brutality of indie film today…

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Review of Breathless (2009)

By Ella Taylor (978) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 May 2010

Breathless makes alienation look like it was a lot more fun in 1960 than in the ponderous gravitas or ante-upping brutality of indie film today…

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Review of Mademoiselle Chambon (2009)

By Michelle Orange (458) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 May 2010

Discretely drawn and elegantly photographed, Mademoiselle Chambon gives a French, working-class love triangle the Brief Encounter treatment…

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Review of The Pink Panther 2 (2009)

By Ernest Hardy (466) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 May 2010

It's Garcia, Molina, and Tomlin who give you momentary hope that the film might settle into a witty, irreverent romp…

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Review of Urbania (2000)

By Amy Taubin (175) for Village Voice (8,525) on 19 May 2010

Derails toward the end, becoming platitudinous, not to mention kitschy, but, given the Cheerios wholesomeness of most gay indies, its grief-stricken…

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Review of Shrek Forever After (2010)

By Ernest Hardy (466) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 May 2010

It takes the film a deadly long time to kick in, and when it does, it largely retreads formula: ironic use of pop standards, musical numbers…

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Review of Cool & Crazy (2001)

By Ed Park (107) for Village Voice (8,525) on 17 May 2010

If music be the food of love, Cool & Crazy could stand a few more hits from the spice rack…

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Review of Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 May 2010

Wide-eyed, open-mouthed, and silently beseeching, she's (Johansson) even more a screen for projection here than in Lost in Translation; surrounded…

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Review of Aristide and the Endless Revolution (2005)

By Joshua Land (46) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 May 2010

Investigates the events leading up to the coup d'état; that it was the second for Aristide (overthrown in 1991, mere months after becoming…

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Review of Just Wright (2010)

By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 May 2010

Another movie, not as awful as this one, might one day find better use for the easygoing vibe between Queen Latifah and Common, the stars of…

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Review of Robin Hood (2010)

By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 May 2010

The directorial choices are, for the most part, so lazy, the blockbuster engineering so blatant, that Robin Hood often falls into self-parody…

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Review of Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo (2009)

By Eric Hynes (189) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 May 2010

There's enough wisdom in this appropriately compact film to suggest avenues of further, though likely not as wondrous, inquiry…

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Review of Punishment Park (1971)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 May 2010

Shot during the post-Kent State law and order election of 1970, Punishment Park can seem so outrageous as to verge on camp, but few other movies…

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Review of Harry Brown (2009)

By Ella Taylor (978) for Village Voice (8,525) on 02 May 2010

Director Daniel Barber's lame handwringing about the root causes of youthful alienation forms a thin veneer over the real purpose of this self-important…

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Review of The Terminal (2004)

By J. Hoberman (756) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 May 2010

Making Viktor a Middle Eastern, a South Asian, or even a Bosnian tourist would have given this trite exercise an edge--and a measure of human pathos…

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Review of Bewitched (2005)

By Michael Atkinson (678) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 Apr 2010

To spend even 10 minutes in the movie's universe is to experience the Sartrean nausea of an utterly hollow head and heart…

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Review of Walking on the Sky (2005)

By Danial Adkison (2) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 Apr 2010

School Ties heartthrob Randall Batinkoff and the rest of the cast make do with wooden lines and a plot that fails to jell…

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Review of Premonition (2007)

By Nathan Lee (205) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Apr 2010

Had the film maintained a tone of kooky, Kafkaesque tragicomedy, narrowing in on Linda's wacko wrestling match with the laws of physics, we…

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